RECIPE FOR A FRIDAY IN SEVENTEEN PARTS
Ingredients:
1 camper van, weathered, rust showing through cream
1 gas cylinder (check seal twice)
1 Holden, awaiting parts
3 names you owe messages to
1 letter to Chris, half-folded
Cable, sufficient length
Mudflaps, 2
Drawer runners, sticking
1 Wellington sky, pewter, unrelenting
Method:
Do not preheat anything. Begin in the middle.
Open all seventeen tasks simultaneously.
Attempt to close one. Watch two more open.
Wipe a surface. Find a wire beneath it.
Text Marco back while holding a power switch
in your other hand. Feel the small shock
of trying to be in six places with one body.
Let the day reduce. It will not thicken.
It will not set.
Serving suggestion:
Eat standing up, between the digital
and the deeply physical, grease
under one thumbnail, autocorrect
under the other.
Yield: one day, used completely.
Leftovers: none.